Marian Seldes

Marian Hall Seldes was an American stage, film, radio and television actress whose career spanned over 60 years. A fivetime Tony Award nominee, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for A Delicate Balance in 1967, and received subsequent nominations for Fathers Day , Deathtrap , Ring Round the Moon and Dinner at Eight . She also won a Drama Desk Award for Fathers Day. Her other Broadway credits included Equus , Ivanov and Deuce . She was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1995 and received the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2010.

Seldes was born in Manhattan, the daughter of Alice Wadhams Hall, a socialite, and Gilbert Seldes, a journalist, author and editor. Her uncle was journalist George Seldes. She had one brother, Timothy. Seldess paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and her mother was from a prominent WASP family, the Episcopalian blueblooded Halls. She grew up in a creative environment, studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Her maternal aunt, Marian Wells Hall , was a prominent interior decorator.

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